Making a Presentation of Files

[Tim Tate]

Our church is using PP to display words for our songs. Each song is a
separate file since we reuse the songs periodically. Rather than copying
each songs' slides into 1 large file (usually 6-8 songs for each service), is
there a way to create a presentation file using file names and importing the
slides from the file during the presentation? I think I used to be able to
do this but cannot find the process in PP2003.

 

[Sandy]

Name each song according your naming conventions then go to: Insert > Slides
from Files.

 

[Bill Dilworth]

Or,

1) Disable the hyperlink warnings on the computer that will be used during
the church service. See:
Security warning message when clicking hyperlink in PowerPoint 2003: "files
might harm your computer"
http://www.pptfaq.com/FAQ00587.htm

2) Create a new blank black 'Main Menu' presentation
3) Add a slide for each of your songs
4) Add a black rectangle to the slide with an 'action setting' 'mouse-over'
hyper-linking to the hymn/song lyrics

Now, when you start this Main Menu presentation, you can navigate to slide
6, for instance, which would represent the sixth musical selection for that
week. Moving the mouse over the area where the black shape is (being a
black shape on a black background, it will be invisible) will automatically
jump to the presentation you have linked to in the storage directory, and
show that presentation until completed or 'Escaped' out of. When that show
is ended, you will return to the Main Menu, on the slide that you left from.
Advance this to the next slide and mouse over the next link for the next
song.

Hope this gives you some ideas.

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Bill Dilworth
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